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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mammy says in Chapter 1 that Sarny's mother sold for the value of how many field hands?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. What kind of coin does Sarny describe finding in the dirt in Chapter 2?
(a) A quarter.
(b) A dime.
(c) A nickel.
(d) A penny.

3. What must the slaves do whenever someone is punished at the spring house?
(a) Stand and watch.
(b) Kneel and look away.
(c) Pray.
(d) Plow the fields.

4. What does Sarny enjoy doing every evening after the slaves eat?
(a) Laying in bed thinking about what she's learned.
(b) Singing songs that she learned in church.
(c) Playing a harmonica that she found in town.
(d) Drawing pictures in the sand in the chicken shed.

5. What does Sarny remark about her birth in Chapter 1?
(a) She was born premature.
(b) She came out backwards.
(c) She was born deaf.
(d) She was born blind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mammy tell Sarny to bring to her as she makes her way to the slave quarters in the end of Chapter 5?

2. What does Sarny recall Mammy telling her to do with the coin that she found in the dirt in Chapter 2?

3. Where does Waller spend the day while Mammy is shackled to the spring house in Chapter 5?

4. What word from Chapter 3 refers to a gourd used for eating or drinking?

5. What does John tell Sarny she will have to learn before she can learn to read in Chapter 3?

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